A Texas judge has dismissed misdemeanor charges of riot participation filed against 211 alleged illegal immigrants who stood accused of overrunning members of the Texas National Guard in March at the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso.
County Court of Law Judge Ruben Morales dismissed the charges Wednesday, ruling that his court had no jurisdiction over the cases, according to the El Paso Times.
The public defender in the case, Kelli Childress, had moved for dismissal, claiming that the EL Paso District Attorney’s Office had failed to submit a “transfer order” when the cases were removed from the district court and moved to the county’s docket.
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Without that order, Childress argued, jurisdiction over the cases remained with the original court.
“All of those processes were ignored
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